ORIGANUM, OIL of

,—is a well-known e ential oil, extracted from the plant whose name it bears: it is an admirable collateral corroborant, when incorporated with judicious proportions of such other medicines as are proper for STRAINS , or a relaxed state of the TENDONS . If used in too great quantities, or added to heterogeneous articles, it disunites itself almost immediately; and, instead of executing the office of a gentle STIMULANT , penetrating the pores, a umes the power of the milder cla of CAUSTICS , occasioning an eschar upon the part impregnated, terminating with a lo of hair.